81.   The compact allows a federally authorized organization of six New England states to set milk prices above the federal minimum.

82.   The losses are due to changes in the meat production and distribution system, including the failure of milk procurement prices to keep up with inflation.

83.   The study also blames higher milk prices on a monopolization of dairy processors.

84.   U.S. agriculture officials said the subsidies would help stabilize falling milk prices that dairy farmers fear may hurt their business.

85.   William Oldenburg, vice president of operations for Oakland, Calif.-based Dreyers, blamed higher production costs stemming directly from milk fat prices.

86.   Food issues fell after announcements that annual results would be unfavorably affected by higher milk prices.

87.   Dairy farmers in Wisconsin on Wednesday escalated their protest against slumping milk prices by closing their land to snowmobiles.

88.   The replacement of the MMB by another monopoly, the Milk Marque, has led to rising wholesale milk prices.